Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure… — Jacob Schiff Copy Share Image
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Ever since Germany was able to regain its unity, it is in an even stronger position to give its contribution to upholding… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now… — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
